Bonnet for the caps of railway signal-fuses.



i w. A. CONLEY. BONNET FOR THE CAPS 0F RAILWAY SIGNAL FUSEES.

V Patented Apr. 22,1919.

2 S HEETSSHEET I- APPLIC ATION FILED NOV. 6 19H!- A TTORNE Y.

w. A. CONLEY. BONNET FOR- THE CAPS 0F RAILWAY SIGNAL FUSEES APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6. 1918,

-1 301,655. Patented Apr. 22,1919.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

ATTORNEY.

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all. *wh'qmc't may concern. v 3

e it known. that I, 'WILLIAM A. GONLEY,

esiding at. Needham Heights, in the county Norfolk Stateof Mass, have invented rtain'new and useful Improvements in onne'ts for the Caps of Railway Signal- Fusees, of;which the following is a specification, ;reference being had therein to the n i mp eyins n I i This invention relates to improvements in onnetsffor: the caps of railway signal fuseesw f r r improvement pertains to the manner 5 of attaching the tape to the bonnet for breakingaway-the top of the bonnet and exposmg he-jli complementmy igniting material for ghting thefusee; I g I "The primary object of my present invenon is to so arrange and locate the tape as ;save" material by Shortening the length Tbff thefta'peas compared with the length of jtapeirequired; to' arran'ge and attach it as ;here'toforefused. I

ZOf-fthG bonnet-,'instead of at its lowerend as eretofore arranged V Another object of my present inventionis wholly locate the tape at the top of-the partiof'ithe fusee, whereby a saving in the lengthQof the .tape is efl'ected as compared 7 with-,theaordinaryway of arranging and atf'85 tachingtheitape to the bonnets for caps of 'ailway signal i'fusees'. I

-: 1 Ini'the accompanying. drawings- Figurlis aiiperspectiveview of'a rail- .way signalfu see-cap, showing a bonnet at- 40atached2thereto involving-. my. present imrovement. .Eign 2is a perspective view of a railway a1T- f1isee:cap.with my improvement aprpliedzthereto, the' tape being partially torn f'away.j 'EiIFiga3 isa perspective view of a railway 1 "signal fusee with a capapplied thereto havngJ-a' bonnet embodying "my present improvement, with" the tape partiallyv torn awa 7 lriFig-A. is; a, perspective view of a railway ignalfusee cap with my improvement ap- STATES PAT gamm or nnnnnm nnienmsmnssnonusmrs, Assieivoiz. To CENTRAL ILLWI'AYY :SIGNAL COMPANY, OEPITTSIBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, ecorroRAT-Ior zen-' of 'fUnit'edstates of America,

'Another object of present invention is tohave the free end of the tape at the top w ibonnet-withits free end also located at-that h thereto, with'the-tape tom .aw'ayto some r012. THE bus or RAILWAY sIenAn-Ftrsmis,

I I Specification of Letters Patent. i PatlltdiAQlkZZ,.1919. [Application filedlq 'ovember 6,1918. 'sr iaims. 26 1,f4c1f 1 Fig. 6is' a'similar'sectional'view to-that of Fig. 5, on anenlargedscale', 'andshowing Fig. 5 is a longitudinal se-caonaiviewtfa another form of cap withfmyimprovement attached thereto. Fig. 7 is a sectional view simil'artoFigtfi, showing another form, f cap wi th myfim- "provement applied thereto? It is well-'knownto 'thoseskilled in theart that a railway signal'fusee comprises a tubular body-portion v 1, which contalns the burning compound-2; Oneiend of the bodyf'portion- 1 is"-usually provided with a suitable spike-carrying "memberf'3, and the'bther or lighting end of thefu'see is provided with a lighting composition 4 applied'to'theoutside of its 'upper end, as shown in Figs. 5,6 and 7. I It is also understood by those skilledin the art thatrailw'ay signal' fusee's are provided with caps ofjva'rious' constructions.

'In' Fig. 5, I have shownone form of'cap 5,

which is a paper tube,jand in this form the upper end of the tube is closed'by a wood plug 6. In Fig. 6, the tubular portion 5 of the cap has its upper end closed byganother form of wood plug 7, and in Fig. 7-the upper end of thetube 5 of the cap is closed by crimping in the paper of the upper, end, as

shown at 8.

7 The form of'cap-usedisno part' ofmy 'present invention, audit may be of any desired form, but'in all cases there is applied to the outside of the upper end of the cap a lighting material or composition 9, which is complementary to" the lighting -material 4, at the upperend of the bodyl, of'the fusee, and these igniting materials 9 and 14 are complementary, as is the headof a safetymatch and the compositionon the outside of the boxes containing the matches. In fusees as used, the caps areprovided with a paper bonnet which comprises "a piece of paper which iswrapped around the: Louter end of the cap and'folded inward over the igniting material-9, for thepurposefof protectingit; Thus-{far I have; described what is common to f usees as'now'used. v,

present improvement eonsists inep plying the tape to the upper end of the bonnet, folding it thereon by the folding V of the bonnet over the end of the cap. This arrangement places-the tape in a folded'apf proximately z'igZzLgposition, as shown in Figs. 5, 6 and The sectional views 5, 6

and 7 are exaggerations of the thickness ofr the tape and the folded inporti'on 11 of the bonnet so f r as the thickness of parts is concerned.

In my improvement the tape 10 has a pro-.7 jecting free end 13 to be grasped between the fingeIfSfQf the-user for pulling the tape out straight and thus tearing away the lfqldedportion oifthe bonnet'and expose the igniting material 9. In operation with V and then pulled in the opposite direction breaking; away the other fold and exposing the gn ti g ompositiQ j ts upper encl-- Incarrying out my improvement, the honnet. '12, prefera y does n t over ,the who1 length of theie'ap 5,, and theca-p is fastened to thebody of the fusee by wrapping a strip of paper 14 around the inner end of thecap anell he; adjacent. p r io f the body fof'the esee, as how in; F gs. 3, and 7- r Fig. 5, theinner end-15 of thef ta'pe is fastened having it extend between the W od p g 6 nd. th uppernd offthe .cap

tube th o he p eing Placed the. tube an thfi'plaug pushed and cemented therein. r a

In Fig. 6 the wood plug: 7 is; cemented in the-fiend of the cap. tube 5,- and the endv of the tape l5e is fastened by a staple 16 driven through the tape and into the wood plug 7. Fig. '2? the 'end 15 of the tape i-s'fastened by astap-le 17, which is drawn throughthe tape, and through the: closed end-'8' ofthe zhe on e and ape o tr t on ofifuse a here fie e and, kn wn "to: th e skilled he;v art, ifl rs. rom my c nstruction in e; 'era Jpar i ularsi; As he of re used, the

bonnet is madesuificiently long'in asingle piece. to project below the end of the tape to fasten thefbody ot the fusee and the tape passes; across, the top of the cap downits ide; betwee the. elm ndh cap egntinues. down below the lower :end of the h r-inlet: errjesponding to thesp'art- 14);, and

with a, project:

will be 612 that iihe'tape. must be of a length considerably'longerthanthecappf My amrangement difi ers r0m= previous h ligh ed by. sc a ng i n.

and

free end. From 'thisfit' constructions in that the tape is folded on 7 top of the cap andis folded in with the folding of the end of the bonnet, so that V w s'p'h l dfo th n o the bonn t breaks'away. i's'asaving of'approximately. one-half ;in the" length "ofthe tape required and con iequentlyrthe amount of materiar'required. o Another advantage of my improvementls thatinthe old construction just described, .the, bonnet and the tape are not applied to the cap until'the cap is applied to the fusee. That is to say the-capand bonnet-is notia, finished product until it; is applied tothefusee: The tape being fastened -':to thezca'p,

it is. passed; "across the upper Ie'nd down its 7 I sidelanda-longthe side of the. fusee; and-a5; .stripof; aper of suflicientiwidth to extend. e uippfer' end-ofthe' cap and below 1 beyond t v th'ejloweriend 'ofthe cap andis pasted to so 'f the cap, :the tapesand the rfusee-. -b y; asingle operation with the glowerend ofthe'tape projectingbelow :the lower end of the honnetf :In the oId form-when thetape is torn awaythebonnet is broken away at onerside throughout its complete length across-thetop while. the bonnet isbeing wra pedwamund them- In my improved construction 1 1 proper consists of a relativelynarrowistrlp 12, which will haveitsupper end rejecting and? the tape and'bonl zletaare atta' 7 ed. to the cap andfolded in as shown .inFigs: 5,- 6 and of; the.cap Thisisa somewhat awkwardI"i operation, becausefthe 'fusee, the cap and: tape must. all beheld inproperpo'sitions 7,;thfus making-thew! withits tapeaicom- 7 the, fnsee; I

to havethe cap asia 'completed'product on hand ready to be attached to the. fuseei -instead of havingit'fin an uncompleted condition and c'ompletedatthe time it 'is a pplied pleted. product "ready to be attached to" the 'fusee by simply wrappingastltip around its lower end and the "adjacent portionof 1 05 'It has beenif ound to be' offgreat advantage to the fusee. My :improvementnotionly .pro-

'vides a complete cap ready to. beapplied to, a fusee, butfitaeifects aweryiconsiderable' saving'in the amount. of material required for-the tape as compared to theoldiway. I o e Again, in the'oldway it wasaneces'sary to grasp the fusee atfapoint below;the lower end ofthe part 145 of'the bonnet becau s e-the' tape-extended tothat pointvand had to :broken awayfrom that poihtoutwxd. i In my construction of fusee-it can be grasped i 'i at. its. outer end near the point where the tape istorn away andno care or-thoughtl'is necessaryat what'point the fusee is heldg-by .one hand whilethe tape islbei'ng'tornaway ;with' the other hand. e V The cap;- WithPmy improvementaswiththe old form; is broken away from the of "theifu'see by simply twisting thejcap w "ch liwill-Qbreali the bonnet at the point 18, thus in end o the fusee;

avingthusdeseribed my invention,-what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent v 1. A cap for railway signal fusees havin an 'expos' ed complementary igniting composition onjitsend, a tape extending over the igniting material, a paper bonnet wrapped a liql'mdthe cap at its said end and extending beyond the cap end, the extended end of the 'bonfi et and the tape folded and pasted togetheriover the end of the cap and leaving 5 'anendof the tape projecting from the bon- (lhuiiet of thiepatent may be obtained for v permitting it to beiremoved from the light-,'

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net folds to be pulled for the purpose described. 1 Y

2. A cap for railway signal fusees, having an exposed complementary igniting composition on its end, a paper bonnet wrapped around said cap end, the bonnet projecting beyond the cap end, and folded thereover, and a tape between the folded portion of the bonnet and said igniting composition, one end of the tape passing out between the folds of the bonnet and projecting therefrom at the end of the cap for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my WILLIAM A; CONLEY.

five cents each, by addressing the commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

